On Oct 11, 11:38*pm, "Jon" wrote:
I have a Realistic DX-160 0.15-30Mhz Solid State Communications Receiver for
which I want to build or obtain an antenna.

I can buy 500' of 14awg twisted strand insulated copper wire from Lowes for
$40. *Then what? *I have two trees about 200' apart I could get the ladder
and string the wire. *Would that work?

I used to have a dipole antenna but it never seemed to make any difference.
What component is in the nodes, anyway? *A capacitor? *A resistor?

In the meantime while I try and figure it out, I'm working on acquiring an
8' ground rod. *Plus grounding the coaxial.

Is this radio even worth an antenna?

What about a vertical mast antenna? *I don't need to transmit, just receive.
How good do those work?

Is a wire antenna best strung E-W or N-S? *I want Europe, not Spanish.

Apparently the end of the wire can act as a node to a wave 2 or 3 times as
long as the wire. *The length of the wire can divide into waves 1/2, 1/3,
1/4 etc. the length of the wire.

http://mypeoplepc.com/members/jon8338/math/id39.html

All I know has taught me I know nothing. *Jon

When I lived in an apartment temporarily a few years ago I had a
similar situation. The back of the apartment and my bedroom window
faced a wooded area so I strung up about 50 or 60 ft of wire using a
long piece of PVC pipe to push it up into the trees. I used it with my
MFJ tuner and enjoyed a lot of SWL time. Yes the tuner helped compared
to the antenna terminated in a banana plug and pushed into the
connector on the back of my IC 729. Take notes on how you set up the
tuner for various frequencies

Jimmie